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Bullet announcements · Feb 15, 2023

2023 AIBS Board of Directors

The American Institute of Biological Sciences is pleased to announce newly elected individuals to the Board of Directors and those serving in Officer positions for the term beginning January 2023.
Bullet announcements, bioscience, diversity · Feb 08, 2023

Celebrating Black History Month

American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is celebrating Black History Month by highlighting individuals, organizations, articles, and activities that are shining a light on African American scientific excellence.
Bullet announcements · Jan 15, 2023

BioScience's New Editor-in-Chief

The American Institute of Biological Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Charles Fenster as editor-in-chief of its flagship journal, BioScience, effective 1 January 2023, upon the expiry of previous editor-in-chief Scott L. Collins’s second three-year term.

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Bullet announcements, awards, diversity · Jul 30, 2021

AIBS Receives NSF LEAPS Award to Support Diversity Conference

AIBS has received an award from NSF under its LEAPS program to support the development of a diversity conference that will engage and create a collaborative network of majority- and minority-serving biological scientific societies to foster cultural change.